it felt like it was only a matter of time until this happened and i hope they’re prepared.

i wish i could speak mandarin so i could visit and try out these things that have over there.

it reached an absurd level in austin texas well before trump became a thing; they show up to gay bars to entrap men into breaking the law with the intention of citing enough legal violations to justify shutting down the bar permanently. it’s so bad that the bars have responded by hiring off duty police because they have a chance of recognizing officers in plainclothes.

i sometimes wonder if the french empire will disintegrate faster than the american empire.

here’s a fun fact for you: someone like trump is an inevitability because of capitalism and imperialism.

every empire crumbles eventually and, when it does, it turns the violence that it perpetrated upon the world onto its own people. that’s what trump signifies and the democrats & republicans alike are inching us towards this imperial boomerang; kamala has no intention of stopping any of it, like biden didn’t even bother to ask netanyahu to stop genociding the palestinians.

you would think that this is obvious, given the results of the last election against a convicted criminal candidate; but i suppose that’s asking too much.

they’re american agit-proped into a rock and a hard place and i wonder if other places in this world will be likewise manipulated in the future.